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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3892 

To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the 

designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 3, 2015 

Mr. DIAZ-BALART (for himself, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mrs. 

BLACK, and Mr. POMPEO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of State to submit a report to 

Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood 

as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood 

5 Terrorist Designation Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

7 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 


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1 (1) Multiple countries have declared the Society 

2 of the Muslim Brothers (commonly known as the 

3 ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood’’) a terrorist organization or 

4 proscribed the group from operating in their coun5 tries. 

6 (2) In 1980, following a wave of assassinations 

7 targeting government officials and the June 16, 

8 1979, massacre of 83 military cadets in Aleppo, the 

9 Government of Syria— 

10 (A) banned the Muslim Brotherhood from 

11 the country; and 

12 (B) made membership in the organization 

13 punishable by death. 

14 (3) In a February 14, 2003, court decision, the 

15 Russian Supreme Court— 

16 (A) described the Muslim Brotherhood as 

17 a terrorist organization; and 

18 (B) banned the organization from oper19 ating in Russia. 

20 (4) In 2013— 

21 (A) an Egyptian court banned the Muslim 

22 Brotherhood from Egypt; and 

23 (B) the Government of Egypt officially de24 clared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist orga25 nization. 


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1 (5) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia designated 

2 the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group on 

3 March 7, 2014. 

4 (6) The Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates 

5 has published a list of terrorist organizations, which 

6 includes the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affili7 ates. 

8 (7) On March 21, 2014, the Foreign Minister 

9 of Bahrain backed the terrorist designations of the 

10 Muslim Brotherhood by the United Arab Emirates 

11 and Saudi Arabia. 

12 (8) The Muslim Brotherhood, which was found13 ed in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains 

14 headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the 

15 world. 

16 (9) The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-standing 

17 motto includes the following: ‘‘Allah is our objective. 

18 The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. 

19 Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our 

20 highest hope. [Allah is greater!]’’. 

21 (10) Hassan al-Banna, in a book entitled ‘‘The 

22 Way of Jihad’’, taught— 

23 (A) ‘‘Jihad is an obligation from Allah on 

24 every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor 

25 evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to 


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1 jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs 

2 and fighters in His way a splendid one. Only 

3 those who have acted similarly and who have 

4 modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their 

5 performance of jihad can join them in this re6 ward.’’; and 

7 (B) ‘‘Jihad [means] the fighting of the un8 believers, and involves all possible efforts that 

9 are necessary to dismantle the power of the en10 emies of Islam including beating them, plun11 dering their wealth, destroying their places of 

12 worship and smashing their idols.’’. 

13 (11) Hassan al-Banna also taught that ‘‘it is 

14 the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be domi15 nated’’, and thus that the mission of Islam, as inter16 preted and executed by the Muslim Brotherhood, 

17 must be ‘‘to impose [Islamic] law on nations and to 

18 extend its power to the entire planet’’. While al19 Banna’s plan for accomplishing this mission was 

20 multifaceted, it centrally incorporated training for 

21 and the execution of violent jihad–terrorist oper22 ations. 

23 (12) In Richard P. Mitchell’s 1969 book on the 

24 history of the Muslim Brotherhood, entitled ‘‘The 

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1 plained al-Banna’s teachings on violent jihad: The 

2 certainty that jihad had this physical connotation is 

3 evidenced by the relationship always implied between 

4 it and the possibility, even the necessity, of death 

5 and martyrdom. Death, as an important end of 

6 jihad, was extolled by al-Banna in a phrase which 

7 came to be a famous part of his legacy: ‘‘[T]he art 

8 of death’’. ‘‘Death is art’’. The Koran has com9 manded people to love death more than life. Unless 

10 ‘‘the philosophy of the Koran on death’’ replaces 

11 ‘‘the love of life’’ which has consumed Muslims, then 

12 they will reach naught. Victory can only come with 

13 the mastery of ‘‘the art of death’’. The movement 

14 cannot succeed, al-Banna insists, without this dedi15 cated and unqualified kind of jihad. 

16 (13) This philosophy pervaded the Muslim 

17 Brotherhood’s prioritization of training for combat. 

18 Professor Mitchell observed that it was ‘‘the tone of 

19 the training which gave [the Muslim Brotherhood] 

20 its distinctive qualities’’, adding: ‘‘If the Muslim 

21 Brothers were more effectively violent than other 

22 groups on the Egyptian scene, it was because mili23 tancy and martyrdom had been elevated to central 

24 virtues in the Society’s ethos.’’. Its literature and 

25 speeches were permeated with references identifying 


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1 it and its purposes in military terms. Al-Banna told 

2 members again and again that they were ‘‘the army 

3 of liberation, carrying on your shoulders the message 

4 of liberation; you are the battalions of salvation for 

5 this nation afflicted by calamity’’. 

6 (14) Al-Banna’s blueprint for revolution antici7 pated a final stage of ‘‘execution’’ at which point the 

8 battalions the Muslim Brotherhood had trained 

9 would ‘‘conquer . . . every obstinate tyrant’’. This 

10 violent ideology continued to be part of the Brother11 hood’s indoctrination in standard membership texts, 

12 such as Sayyid Qutb’s ‘‘Milestones’’ and Fathi 

13 Yakan’s ‘‘To Be a Muslim’’. 

14 (15) In Muslim Brotherhood organizations and 

15 chapters throughout the world, including in the 

16 United States, al-Banna’s originating philosophy 

17 continues to be taught. 

18 (16) In its earliest days, the Egyptian Muslim 

19 Brotherhood established a terrorist wing, referred to 

20 as the ‘‘secret apparatus’’, which conducted bomb21 ings and assassinations targeting foreigners and gov22 ernment officials. The assassinations by the Muslim 

23 Brotherhood of Judge Ahmed Al-Khazinder Bey in 

24 1947 and Prime Minister Mahmoud Al-Nuqrashi in 


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1 1948 prompted the first ban on the organization in 

2 Egypt. 

3 (17) The United States has previously des4 ignated global elements of the Muslim Brotherhood 

5 as foreign terrorist organizations, including— 

6 (A) the terrorist group Hamas, which self7 identifies as ‘‘one of the wings of the Muslim 

8 Brotherhood in Palestine’’, which was des9 ignated as a foreign terrorist organization by 

10 President William J. Clinton on January 23, 

11 1995, by Executive Order 12947, and by Sec12 retary of State Madeline Albright on October 7, 

13 1997, under section 219(a) of the Immigration 

14 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)); and 

15 (B) the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood’s 

16 Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya (‘‘Islamic Call 

17 Committee’’), which was designated as a foreign 

18 terrorist organization by President George W. 

19 Bush on September 23, 2001, by Executive 

20 Order 13224 and by Secretary of State Colin 

21 Powell on January 9, 2003, under such section 

22 219(a). 

23 (18) Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya was des24 ignated as a foreign terrorist organization for— 


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1 (A) being a financial conduit for Osama 

2 bin Laden and Al-Qaeda; 

3 (B) funding terrorist groups in Chechnya 

4 and Libya; and 

5 (C) including Al-Qaeda operations chief 

6 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and World Trade 

7 Center bomber Ramzi Yousef as leaders with 

8 the organization. 

9 (19) Militias of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood 

10 recently joined forces with United States designated 

11 terrorist organizations, particularly Ansar al-Sharia, 

12 as part of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolu13 tionaries and Libya Dawn forces fighting against the 

14 military forces of the internationally recognized Lib15 yan government. 

16 (20) Individual Muslim Brotherhood leaders 

17 have been designated by the United States as Spe18 cially Designated Terrorists, as authorized under the 

19 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 

20 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and initiated under Executive 

21 Order 13224 (September 23, 2001), including 

22 Shaykh Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani, a leader of the 

23 Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood’s Al-Islah political 

24 party, who was designated by the Secretary of the 

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1 ruary 2, 2004. The designation states that al2 Zindani has a ‘‘long history of working with Bin 

3 Laden, serving as one of his spiritual leaders’’, in 

4 addition to his activities in support of Al-Qaeda, in5 cluding recruiting and procuring weapons. Al6 Zindani was also identified in a Federal lawsuit as 

7 a coordinator of the October 2000 suicide attack 

8 targeting the USS COLE in Aden, Yemen, that 

9 killed 17 United States Navy sailors, including per10 sonally selecting the 2 suicide bombers. In Sep11 tember 2012, al-Zindani reportedly called for his 

12 supporters to kill United States Marines stationed at 

13 the United States Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen. 

14 (21) Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, a veteran of 

15 the Soviet-Afghan war, senior Muslim Brotherhood 

16 leader, and brother-in-law and close confidant of 

17 Osama bin Laden was arrested in California in De18 cember 1994 on charges related to the 1993 bomb19 ing of the World Trade Center. Evidence was found 

20 at that time that linked Khalifa to the planned al21 Qaeda Operation Bojinka plot that included the 

22 bombing of 11 airplanes between Asia and the 

23 United States. He was deported to Jordan in May 

24 1995. Prior to that time he operated an Islamic 

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1 neling money to the Abu Sayyef terrorist group and 

2 laundering money for Bin Laden. He was sought 

3 again by United States authorities in 2007, and an 

4 Interpol bulletin was issued to several United States 

5 intelligence agencies. Khalifa was killed four days 

6 later in Madagascar. 

7 (22) Sami Al-Hajj, an Al-Qaeda member and 

8 senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Shura 

9 Council, was imprisoned as a detainee at the De10 partment of Defense facility at Guantanamo Bay, 

11 Cuba. He was captured by Pakistani forces near the 

12 Afghanistan border in 2001 and transferred to 

13 United States custody. He was detained for his work 

14 as a money and weapons courier for Al-Qaeda. He 

15 reportedly worked directly with Taliban commander 

16 Mullah Mohammad Omar to procure weapons, and 

17 met with senior Afghan Muslim Brotherhood offi18 cials in mid-2001 to discuss the transfer of Stinger 

19 missiles from Afghanistan to Chechnya. 

20 (23) According to a May 1995 report by the 

21 United States House of Representatives Task Force 

22 on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, a series 

23 of conferences hosted by Sudanese Muslim Brother24 hood leader Hassan al-Turabi in Khartoum, Sudan, 

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1 tured representatives from virtually every Islamic 

2 terrorist organization in the world. The conferences 

3 included representatives from Iranian intelligence, 

4 Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Is5 lamic Jihad, and the Armed Islamic Group of Alge6 ria, and leaders from the international Muslim 

7 Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf 

8 Countries, Hamas (the Palestinian Muslim Brother9 hood), the Islamic Action Front (Jordanian Muslim 

10 Brotherhood), and the Ennahda Movement (the Tu11 nisian Muslim Brotherhood). Osama bin Laden was 

12 present at the conferences. The parties agreed to 

13 launch a terrorism offensive beginning in 1995, with 

14 targets including United States interests and per15 sonnel in the Middle East and attacks inside the 

16 United States homeland. 

17 (24) In October 2003, Richard Clarke, former 

18 National Coordinator for Security and Counterter19 rorism for Presidents William J. Clinton and George 

20 W. Bush, testified before the Committee on Bank21 ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate that 

22 terrorist organizations continued to operate inside 

23 the United States and their connection to the Mus24 lim Brotherhood networks, stating ‘‘Dating back to 

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1 oped a sophisticated and diversified financial infra2 structure in the United States. In the post Sep3 tember 11th environment, it is now widely known 

4 that every major Islamist terrorist organization, 

5 from Hamas to Islamic Jihad to al-Qaeda, has lever6 aged the financial resources and institutions of the 

7 United States to build their capabilities. We face a 

8 highly developed enemy in our mission to stop ter9 rorist financing. While the overseas operations of 

10 Islamist terrorist organizations are generally seg11 regated and distinct, the opposite holds in the 

12 United States. The issue of terrorist financing in the 

13 United States is a fundamental example of the 

14 shared infrastructure levered by Hamas, Islamic 

15 Jihad and al-Qaeda, all of which enjoy a significant 

16 degree of cooperation and coordination within our 

17 borders. The common link here is the extremist 

18 Muslim Brotherhood—all of these organizations are 

19 descendants of the membership and ideology of the 

20 Muslim Brothers.’’. 

21 (25) One of the examples cited by Richard 

22 Clarke in his testimony before the Committee on 

23 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 

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1 vestments, the Secaucus, New Jersey-based Baitul 

2 Mal, Incorporated, which offered a range of financial 

3 services for the Muslim community, and invested in 

4 businesses and real estate. According to Federal 

5 prosecutors, the shareholders of Baitul Mal included 

6 al-Qaeda financier Yassin al-Qadi and top Hamas 

7 leader Mousa abu Marzook, both of whom are spe8 cially designated global terrorists and operated sepa9 rate businesses out of the offices of Baitul Mal, In10 corporated and also did business with Baitul Mal, 

11 Incorporated. Other Baitul Mal, Incorporated inves12 tors included Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of Osama 

13 bin laden, and Tarek Swaidan, a Kuwaiti Muslim 

14 Brotherhood leader. In a September 2003 detention 

15 hearing, Federal prosecutors described Biheiri as 

16 ‘‘the United States banker for the Muslim Brother17 hood,’’ and stating that ‘‘the defendant came here as 

18 the Muslim Brotherhood’s financial toehold in the 

19 United States.’’. Biheiri was convicted on Federal 

20 immigration charges on October 9, 2003. 

21 (26) The fact that the international Muslim 

22 Brotherhood engages in terrorism financing inside 

23 the United States was attested to in February 2011 

24 by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who testified before 

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1 the House of Representatives about the Muslim 

2 Brotherhood’s networks and agenda in the United 

3 States, stating: ‘‘I can say at the outset that ele4 ments of the Muslim Brotherhood both here and 

5 overseas have supported terrorism. To the extent 

6 that I can provide information, I would be happy to 

7 do so in closed session. But it would be difficult to 

8 do in open session.’’. 

9 (27) In the Holy Land Foundation prosecu10 tions—the largest terrorism financing trial in United 

11 States history—Department of Justice officials suc12 cessfully argued in court that the international Mus13 lim Brotherhood and its United States affiliates had 

14 engaged in a widespread conspiracy to raise money 

15 and materially support the terrorist group Hamas. 

16 HLF officials charged in the case were found guilty 

17 on all counts in November 2008, primarily related to 

18 millions of dollars that had been transferred to 

19 Hamas. During the trial and in court documents, 

20 Federal prosecutors implicated a number of promi21 nent United States-Islamic organizations in this con22 spiracy, including the Islamic Society of North 

23 America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the 

24 Council on American-Islamic Relations. These 

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1 as unindicted co-conspirators in the case. The De2 partment of Justice told the court that these United 

3 States-Muslim Brotherhood affiliates acted at the di4 rection of the international Muslim Brotherhood to 

5 support terrorism in a July 2008 court filing: 

6 ‘‘ISNA and NAIT, in fact, shared more with HLF 

7 than just a parent organization. They were inti8 mately connected with the [Holy Land Foundation] 

9 and its assigned task of providing financial support 

10 to HAMAS. Shortly after HAMAS was founded in 

11 1987, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, 

12 the International Muslim Brotherhood ordered the 

13 Muslim Brotherhood chapters throughout the world 

14 to create Palestine Committees, who supported 

15 HAMAS with ‘media, money and men’. The U.S.- 

16 Muslim Brotherhood created the U.S. Palestine 

17 Committee, which document reflect was initially 

18 comprised of 3 organizations: the Holy Land Foun19 dation, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and the 

20 United Association for Studies and Research. CAIR 

21 was later added to these organizations. The mandate 

22 of these organizations, per the International Muslim 

23 Brotherhood, was to support HAMAS, and the 

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1 HAMAS’ organizations inside the Palestinian terri2 tories.’’. 

3 (28) In September 2010, the Supreme Guide of 

4 the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, delivered 

5 a weekly sermon mirroring the ideological themes of 

6 Al-Qaeda’s August 1996 declaration of war against 

7 the United States. Calling on Arab and Muslim re8 gimes to confront not just Israel, but also the 

9 United States, he declared that ‘‘Resistance is the 

10 only solution against the Zio-American arrogance 

11 and tyranny.’’. This ‘‘resistance’’ can only come 

12 from fighting and understanding ‘‘that the improve13 ment and change that the [Muslim] nation seeks can 

14 only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by 

15 raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just 

16 as the enemies pursue life’’. He also predicted the 

17 imminent downfall of the United States, saying 

18 ‘‘The United States is now experiencing the begin19 ning of its end, and is heading towards its demise.’’. 

20 (29) Since August 2013, Muslim Brotherhood 

21 members in Egypt have been killed in firefights dur22 ing attacks on police and military targets, and dur23 ing the manufacture and placement of explosives for 

24 acts of terrorism. 


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1 (30) The August 14, 2013, clearing of Muslim 

2 Brotherhood protests in Egypt resulted in attacks by 

3 Muslim Brotherhood supporters targeting the Coptic 

4 Christian community. Attacks included 70 churches 

5 and more than 1,000 homes and businesses of Cop6 tic Christian families torched in the ensuing vio7 lence. During the Muslim Brotherhood protests, 

8 there were repeated reports of direct incitement to9 wards the Copts from leading Muslim Brotherhood 

10 figures, and since the protest dispersal this targeting 

11 of the Christian community continues in official 

12 statements on Muslim Brotherhood social media out13 lets and from its leadership. As the United States 

14 Commission on International Religious Freedom has 

15 previously noted, this terror campaign by the Mus16 lim Brotherhood is not a new development. Over the 

17 past decade violence by the Muslim Brotherhood has 

18 been directed at the Coptic community. As the 

19 USCIRF observed in its 2003 Annual Report: ‘‘Cop20 tic Christians face ongoing violence from vigilante 

21 Muslim extremists, including members of the Mus22 lim Brotherhood, many of whom act with impu23 nity.’’. 

24 (31) On January 27, 2015, the Muslim Broth25 erhood published on their official Ikhwanonline.com 


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1 website an announcement that the organization was 

2 entering a ‘‘new phase’’ and calling its followers to 

3 prepare for a ‘‘long, uncompromising jihad’’ against 

4 the Egyptian government. The statement also posi5 tively recalled the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist 

6 past, including the operations of the ‘‘secret appa7 ratus’’ terror wing active in the 1940s and 1950s, 

8 and the group’s battalions organized by Brotherhood 

9 founder Hassan al-Banna that fought against Israel 

10 during its War of Independence in 1948. 

11 (32) On May 27, 2015, a group of 159 Muslim 

12 Brotherhood-associated scholars from 35 nations an13 nounced the publication of a document endorsing vi14 olence in Egypt in response to a ‘‘war against Is15 lam’s principles.’’. Specifically, Article 4 of the ‘‘Call 

16 to Egypt’’ calls for ‘‘retribution punishment’’ against 

17 government officials, judges, police, soldiers, reli18 gious officials, and media personalities backing the 

19 government. The document was affirmed by the 

20 Muslim Brotherhood in an English-language state21 ment published on their official website. 

22 (33) A July 1, 2015, statement published on 

23 the Muslim Brotherhood’s official English-language 

24 website called for ‘‘rebellion’’ against the Egyptian 

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1 hood leaders were killed in a shootout after opening 

2 fire on Egyptian anti-terror police who were raiding 

3 the secret meeting in 6 of October City. Documents 

4 reportedly recovered at the scene showed that the 

5 leadership were planning acts of sabotage and at6 tacks on police stations during the second anniver7 sary of the removal of Mohamed Morsi on July 3rd. 

8 (34) A senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 

9 leader, Ashraf Abdel Ghaffar, gave a July 3, 2015, 

10 interview in which he defended the sabotage of 

11 power stations and high voltage pylons targeting 

12 Egyptian citizens by the Muslim Brotherhood as 

13 punishment for support of the Egyptian government. 

14 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con15 gress that— 

16 (1) the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria 

17 for designation as a foreign terrorist organization 

18 under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation19 ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and 

20 (2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with 

21 the Attorney General and the Secretary of the 

22 Treasury, should exercise the Secretary of State’s 

23 statutory authority by designating the Muslim 

24 Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. 


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1 SEC. 3. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF THE MUSLIM BROTH2 ERHOOD AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANI3 ZATION. 

4 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT6 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com7 mittees’’ means— 

8 (A) the Committee on Homeland Security 

9 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 

10 (B) the Committee on Armed Services of 

11 the Senate; 

12 (C) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 

13 the Senate; 

14 (D) the Select Committee on Intelligence 

15 of the Senate; 

16 (E) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

17 Senate; 

18 (F) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 

19 and Urban Affairs of the Senate; 

20 (G) the Committee on Homeland Security 

21 of the House of Representatives; 

22 (H) the Committee on Armed Services of 

23 the House of Representatives; 

24 (I) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

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1 (J) the Permanent Select Committee on 

2 Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 

3 (K) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

4 House of Representatives; and 

5 (L) the Committee on Financial Services 

6 of the House of Representatives. 

7 (2) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term 

8 ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 

9 that term in section 3(4) of the National Security 

10 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 

11 (b) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 

12 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 

13 consultation with the intelligence community, shall submit 

14 a detailed report to the appropriate congressional commit15 tees that— 

16 (1) indicates whether the Muslim Brotherhood 

17 meets the criteria for designation as a foreign ter18 rorist organization under section 219 of the Immi19 gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and 

20 (2) if the Secretary of State determines that 

21 Muslim Brotherhood does not meet the criteria re22 ferred to in paragraph (1), includes a detailed jus23 tification as to which criteria have not been met. 


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1 (c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (b) 

2 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 

3 a classified annex, if appropriate. 

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